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45 Articles found on Thursday, 20 November 2008
SA in solid start
20-11-2008
BLOEMFONTEIN – South African opening batsmen Graeme Smith and Neil McKenzie put on a century partnership as they got their team off to a solid start on the first day of the first Test against
readGibbs for Glamorgan
20-11-2008
CARDIFF – South Africa batsman Herschelle Gibbs yesterday agreed to join Glamorgan as their overseas player for the 2009 season.Gibbs played for the Welsh county in the Twenty20 Cup last year and
readKangueehi confident of retaining post
20-11-2008
INCUMBENT Athletics Namibia (AN) president Alpha Kangueehi is confident that he will retain the presidency of the national athletics body at the forthcoming elective congress, scheduled for Katima
readBoks keen to start Lion-taming
20-11-2008
LONDON – South Africa head into their final Test of 2008 seeking a morale-boosting victory against England here at Twickenham ahead of next year’s home series with the British and Irish Lions.The
readMTC NPL Log Standings
20-11-2008
MTC Namibia Premier League Team P W D L GF GA Pts
readWhite to work with Saracens
20-11-2008
LONDON – Former South Africa coach Jake White will spend a week working with English Premiership club Saracens ahead of their match against Worcester on November 30.White resigned as South Africa
readOmusati, AN up in arms
20-11-2008
THE Omusati Athletics Region has not been invited to the Athletics Namibia (AN) elective congress scheduled for Saturday in Katima Mulilo, despite claiming to be a member.A media release on Tuesday
readFootball Comment: Player management
20-11-2008
THE delay of the league kick-off does not only affect the clubs’ financial resources and the fans, but also the players, the coaches and the team manager.How do you decide to contract or invest in
readUlenga ota ka za mo manga mOmutumba gwOpashigwana
20-11-2008
BEN Ulenge, ngoka omasiku ga zi ko a li a hogolululwa a kale natango Omupreidende gwopaati yo Congress of Democrats (CoD) ota ka thiga po oshipundi she mOmutumba gwOpashigwana, opo a ka longekidhile
readOonkundana paufupi
20-11-2008
* HARARE – Ompangu mu Zimbabwe mEtiyali lyoshiwike shika oya ekelehi iipotha iya li mbyoka ya li ya ningilwa Amushanga-Ndjayi gwongundu yompilemena, Tedai Biti.Ihe nande ongaaka, oku na natango
readOmukithi gwomiiyimati gwa eta Namibia a kale we ita tumu iiyimati ye ko South Africa
20-11-2008
OMUKITHI gwomiiyimati nomiikwamboga hagu ithanwa Bactrocera Invadens ngoka gwa monika miiyimati, unene tuu mbyoka hayi likolwa kOshikuino shokEtunda popepi noRuacana mOshitopolwa sha Musati,
readPohamba okwa kuthilwa mo oombele
20-11-2008
OSHIKONGA osha tameka okukelela Omupresidende Hifikepunye Pohamba ka kale okandidaate yo Swapo momahogololo gOpaupresidende nOpashigwana gomumvo tagu ya.Yamwe mboka nayo ya fa inaya halika we oyo
readMartha Namundjebo Tillahun a lukilwa oshinyanga pOnepandaulo
20-11-2008
OSHINYANGA oshinene shOsikola ya Nepandaulo popepi nEndola mOukwanyama mOshitopolwa sha Hangwena shoka sha lukilwa Omunangeshefa a tseyika nawa meme Martha Namundjebo Tillahun ngoka wo e loi kahewa
readInternational Briefs
20-11-2008
50 000 displaced by floods * ADDIS ABABA – Dramatic floods in the eastern Somali region of Ethiopia have killed at least three people and displaced more than 50 000 since the start of the month, aid
readPudgiest UK pets to slim
20-11-2008
LONDON – Eight of Britain’s fattest pets are to embark on a 100-day diet and fitness regime in a bid to crowned this year’s pet fit club champion.The seven dogs and one cat, who are all more than 30
readMbeki to review Zimbabwe constitution bill
20-11-2008
HARARE – Zimbabwe has sent a draft copy of a constitutional amendment empowering President Robert Mugabe unilaterally to form a government to mediator Thabo Mbeki for review, the state-run Herald
readTiny, long-lost primate rediscovered in Indonesia
20-11-2008
WASHINGTON - On a misty mountaintop on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, scientists for the first time in more than eight decades have observed a living pygmy tarsier, one of the planet’s smallest
readIndian navy sinks pirate ‘mother ship’
20-11-2008
NEW DELHI – An Indian naval vessel sank a suspected pirate “mother ship” yesterday in the Gulf of Aden and chased two attack boats into the night, officials said, yet more violence in the lawless seas
readDoctors transplant windpipe
20-11-2008
LONDON – Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. “This technique has great promise,” said Dr. Eric Genden,
readRwandan suspect extradited to France
20-11-2008
FRANKFURT – A German prosecutor said that a top Rwandan official sought in connection with the assassination that sparked the African country’s 1994 genocide was taken to the airport where she was due
readUN says Congo rebels pulling back ‘in hundreds’
20-11-2008
KINSHASA – Congolese Tutsi rebels were pulling back south “in the hundreds” from frontline positions in North Kivu province in a gesture to support a United Nations peace initiative, a UN military
readHunting aides sharpen skills
20-11-2008
THE Namibia Professional Hunting Association (NAPHA) held a practical training course for hunting assistant at the beginning of this month, the association announced this week in a statement.Sixteen
readElephant bull’s life saved
20-11-2008
A CONSERVATION project helping rural communities to co-exist with the desert-adapted elephant in western Kunene Region has compensated two conservancies in the region for deciding not to use a
readElectricity theft cost firms thousands in Maputo
20-11-2008
Maputo – Theft of electricity cables over the past two weeks in the Maputo suburbs of Triunfo and Costa do Sol have caused Mozambique’s publicly-owned electricity company, EDM, losses estimated at
readSchool’s out
20-11-2008
The Tukwafeni Project: an activity beyond the classroomNo one can argue the importance of supplementing school and training curricula with practical experience through field trips. However, it
readGovt aims to decrease Nam’s dependence on imports
20-11-2008
WINDHOEK – The Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry will construct cold storage facilities at Rundu in an effort to promote the production and marketing of locally produced horticultural
readFarming development at Ndonga Linena on track
20-11-2008
NDIYONA – The first phase of developing the Ndonga Linena agricultural project in the Kavango Region is progressing well.The project, which has been delayed for the past six years, finally commenced
readBooming Gulf looks overseas for agriculture needs
20-11-2008
NAHEL, United Arab Emirates – In the dunes around this sun-scorched desert village, where camels still plod along dusty roads an hour south of Dubai’s skyscrapers, they’re making the wasteland
readGlobal labour union welcomes re-election of ILO boss
20-11-2008
Brussels – The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has welcomed the re-election of International Labour Organisation (ILO) Director General Juan Somavia for a further term, at the meeting
readAir travel nosedives as recessionary clouds gather
20-11-2008
The International Air Transport Association (Iata) yesterday released statistics on air travel. Linden Birns from the public relations office at Iata said the number of premium passengers fell 8 per
readForsys strikes mega deal with Forrest
20-11-2008
While the jury stays out on nuclear power and its use, deal making is going ahead between global mining majors and uranium deposits in Namibia have become an attractive target for these firms.Forsys
readBannerman secures N$132m for Namibian project
20-11-2008
Australian-based uranium exploration and mine development company Bannerman Resources Limited on Monday announced that it had secured more than N$132 million as convertible note facility from Resource
readTourism body supports SME sector
20-11-2008
NINE small firms have an opportunity to showcase their goods and services at a tourism congress this week. The Hospitality Association of Namibia (HAN), will be holding its 21st annual congress in
readSteady as she goes, says Captain Manuel to Good Ship SA
20-11-2008
Cape Town – While South Africa is being flooded with ideas about how to handle the global financial crisis, finance minister Trevor Manuel sent a message to the nation yesterday that current fiscal
readBig Brother Africa 3: Quirky SMSes
20-11-2008
JUST when you thought it was safe to switch on CNN again, voting fever has gripped the Big Brother Africa TV text strip. The US election campaign has not ended, it’s being re-invented in a different
readBig Brother Africa 3: Who’s your winner?
20-11-2008
WELL, here we are in the last stretch of the reality television show that has entertained us (or not) for the last three months or so. Now it’s time for BBA3 viewers across Africa to choose their
readMix Camp Settlement gets drought aid
20-11-2008
THE Khomas Regional Council yesterday rolled into the Mix Camp settlement, 20 km north of Windhoek, to deliver maize meal, tinned fish and cooking oil as food aid to 174 families there.The visit
readHospital plagued by power problem
20-11-2008
AN electric gremlin that sparked trouble at the Katutura State Hospital’s casualty ward from Sunday night onwards was declared beat yesterday. Patients and staff at the hospital complained that
readCocaine-dealing suspect acquitted
20-11-2008
THE prosecution of an Angolan-born musician who has been facing a cocaine-dealing charge in Namibia for more than four and a half years ended in an acquittal in the Windhoek Regional Court this week.
readTired of ‘empty promises’
20-11-2008
RESIDENTS of !Haib settlement in the South took to the streets on Thursday to express anger at what they called empty promises by their regional councillor. They claimed that Karasburg Constituency
readRDP slams Nujoma about troops to DRC
20-11-2008
NAMIBIA should not send troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where a military conflict between government troops and a rebel army is escalating, an opposition party has urged.“Just 10
readSPYL saves struggle children from arrest
20-11-2008
THE Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) yesterday helped ensure that the 112 protesting children of the liberation struggle did not add a criminal record to their names.The Secretary of the SPYL, Elijah
readFisherman jailed over Henties Bay stabbing
20-11-2008
THE justice system worked swiftly in the Swakopmund Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when a Walvis Bay fisherman was convicted and sentenced to a four-year prison term only a month after a bloody attack
readDiamond jobs under threat
20-11-2008
NAMIBIA’S nascent diamond cutting and polishing industry, together with the Government’s beneficiation programme, is set to be hard hit by the global financial crisis, as major diamond producers have
readSwapo ‘behind Pohamba all the way’
20-11-2008
SWAPO’S top leaders have thrown their weight fully behind President Hifikepunye Pohamba by rejecting a report stating that a campaign has started to replace him as the party’s presidential candidate
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